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...elections would be complete self-government, so far as the politicos were concerned. The issues closest to the hearts and stomachs of the two million hard-pressed people were still the economic and social problems of living jampacked into 3,435 square miles of an unindustrialized, one-crop country. Likeliest candidate for the new governorship was Roost-Ruler Marin, who has maintained his prestige by plugging for social and economic reform...
Biggest change now ahead is the expected reorganization of the Eighth Air Force into tactical and strategic air forces, like the North African air command. Likeliest candidate to head the former is Annapolis-Man Lewis Brereton, who would absorb the Eighth's Air Support Command...
...true god needs apostles, and Paka-Jake picked up plenty. He especially favored females between 15 and 18, and selected the likeliest of them on his excursions through the province. Each chosen one had to present herself alone at "Kullusmalla," favorite miracle-place of the gods. There & then the earth trembled, fire flashed and from behind clouds of smoke Paka-Jake appeared, smiling...
...obscured, almost forgotten figure during this period was General Giraud. He commanded the French troops in North Africa-but he did so under the resented direction and authority of Darlan. He loomed as the likeliest alternative to Darlan-but Darlan admitted no alternative while he lived. People in the U.S. and Great Britain had about decided to write off Henri Giraud...
...moving was the man likeliest to be killed. Those who were motionless in the New Guinea jungle were Japanese. Those who moved were Americans and Australians. The Japanese had cut down coconut palms, roofed their pillboxes with tree trunks, piled the roofs high with sand-filled rice bags. Machine-gun slits and gun bays gave out from cleverly constructed trenches radiating from the pillboxes...